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Sometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood in northwestern Tokyo's Toshima ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the speed of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for feeble eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (an ironic reference to a nearby district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink...
...Like rats jumping off the sinking ship of the professional print business, it seems inevitable that more media publishers will hunt for profit at college papers in the near future. But we, current and future leaders in student journalism, must stand our ground and ward off corporate vultures to keep the student press as it was intended to be—run by students...
Even a Nobel Peace Prize can't ward off bloodshed in East Timor. President José Ramos-Horta won the award in 1996 for his tireless efforts to free his nation from a repressive occupation by Indonesia, and ever since has commanded respect both internationally and from a majority of his people. But his legacy of peace was shattered on Monday morning, when renegade East Timorese soldiers attacked his home on the outskirts of the capital, Dili, shooting Ramos-Horta at least twice in the torso. The East Timorese president was airlifted to Darwin, Australia, where hospital staff have characterized...
...This is the biggest number of voters this polling place has seen in memory,” said Goodwin. Her fellow polling officials agreed. The Quincy voting place, Precinct 3 in Ward 8, has 758 registered voters. By 5 p.m., 208 people had already cast their ballots...
Sometimes a town moves only as fast as its escalators. From the subway station at Sugamo, a neighborhood of northwestern Tokyo's Toshima Ward, riders ascend single file to street level at the pace of treacle on a winter day - a pace that allows for eyes to adjust to the rising step and for a firm grip on both red rubber handrails. Here in "Grannies' Harajuku" (based on the name of a district famous for its nubile trendsetters and fashion pranksters), slow is the operative word. Heads in the crowd are gray and silver, not black, pink or red. Glasses...